QA Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation QA Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in England is £58,650 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 813 797
Rank change year-on-year +172 -16 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 17 31 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.036% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.039% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 29 130
10th Percentile £45,750 £36,100 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £36,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,650 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,875 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £64,000 £77,750
UK median annual salary £59,900 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.10% -4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,114 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,536 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,464 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in England.

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +100 7 £65,000 +18.18% 9
North of England +74 3 £90,000 +44.00% 2
South West +113 2 £43,750 -23.91% 2
South East +99 2 £59,500 +13.33% 4
Midlands +60 2 £47,500 +18.75% 1
North West +23 2 £90,000 +44.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £47,500 - 1
Yorkshire +76 1 £59,800 -
East of England +46 1 £55,000 +46.67% 3
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
3 11 (64.71%) QA Automation
3 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) Selenium
6 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
7 6 (35.29%) DevOps
7 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
7 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
8 5 (29.41%) Git
8 5 (29.41%) JMeter
8 5 (29.41%) C#
8 5 (29.41%) Python
8 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
8 5 (29.41%) Postman
8 5 (29.41%) BrowserStack
8 5 (29.41%) API Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (23.53%) Appium
9 4 (23.53%) Sauce Labs
9 4 (23.53%) Playwright
9 4 (23.53%) REST Assured
9 4 (23.53%) BDD
9 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
9 4 (23.53%) SQL
9 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
9 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
9 4 (23.53%) Code Quality

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) BrowserStack
2 4 (23.53%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Selenium
2 5 (29.41%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) JMeter
2 5 (29.41%) Postman
3 4 (23.53%) Appium
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) REST Assured
3 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
4 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
4 3 (17.65%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
5 2 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) JIRA
5 2 (11.76%) NeoLoad
5 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
5 2 (11.76%) TestNG
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Billing
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Playwright
2 3 (17.65%) pytest
2 3 (17.65%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) NumPy
3 2 (11.76%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (5.88%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (5.88%) OpenCV
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (64.71%) QA Automation
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
6 5 (29.41%) API Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
7 4 (23.53%) BDD
7 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
8 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
9 2 (11.76%) CRM
9 2 (11.76%) Kanban
9 2 (11.76%) Scrum
9 2 (11.76%) Validation
9 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ISEB
1 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) CyberSource
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft